The Government expects "unanimous" support for the anti-crisis decree despite not having consulted the parties

PalmaThe Government met last Wednesday with the spokespeople of the parliamentary groups to hear their proposals before presenting its anti-crisis decree-law. It is a series of economic measures to address the increase in prices caused by the war in Iran. But just two days later, President Marga Prohens announced the Executive's proposal. She did so, as MÉS per Mallorca and Vox have denounced, without even sending them a draft of the decree-law beforehand. Nevertheless, the PP expects it to be approved with "unanimous" or "the broadest possible" consensus.

This was defended by the spokesperson for the PP in Parliament, Sebastià Sagreras, who insisted that the measures they have put on the table "are those that were discussed with the parliamentary groups and explained to economic agents". Next Wednesday, the decree-law will be approved in an extraordinary Council of Government, and thirty days later it will have to be ratified in the Chamber. Specifically, the Executive will mobilize nearly 160 million euros that will go to ensure the liquidity of companies and self-employed, compensate for cost overruns in the agricultural, industrial and transport sectors. In addition, it has announced a regional deduction from personal income tax to compensate for the increase in the cost of variable-rate mortgages and a reduction in port fees and for professional fishermen. 45 million euros will also be allocated to review prices in public works and service contracts.

"We don't even have the draft of the text"

The spokesperson for MÉS per Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia, considered the Government's meetings with social agents and parties "a staging" while the Government "waited" for Prohens to return from an institutional trip to present the decree-law. "We are told to make the proposal we deem appropriate and on Friday they present it, before any political group had sent him measures," he insisted. The eco-sovereigntist missed more social measures. In the same vein, the spokesperson for the PSIB, Iago Negueruela, expressed himself, reproaching the PP for not having approved this decree-law before.

For their part, the spokesperson for Vox, Manuela Cañadas, has not clarified whether she will support the decree-law, insisting that the Executive demands "a consensus that it has not had" when elaborating it. "We agreed to contribute our measures and that the decree could be approved this Friday or the next, without haste but without pause, and now they are asking us for support for a text that we have not read, nor do we have a draft of it," he continued.